Ted Cruz EVISCERATES Donald Trump With a Line Copied from The American President

Aaron Sorkin's political fiction has had amazing staying power. Just this week, a new podcast breaking down every episode of The West Wing with former cast member Josh Malina has gotten a lot of press. Sorkin's other piece of explicitly political writing, Rob Reiner's The American President is less talked about, but has also proven to have staying power. Today, Ted Cruz, who has been in a bit of a tiff with Donald Trump over each other's wives, took a line directly from the movie to attempt to shut the Donald down.

There's nothing inherently wrong with quoting Sorkin, it's just interesting considering there's next to nothing that Aaron Sorkin and Ted Cruz would ever agree upon politically. Maybe the fact that Washington, D.C. exists, but I have a feeling Ted would find some way to fight Aaron on that too.

As for the Cruz/Trump spat, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think Ted Cruz is handling this extremely well. It started when an Anti-Trump PAC used a nude photo of Trump's wife Melania in an ad trying to get people to support Ted Cruz.

Trump was furious and tweeted the following threat to the Cruz campaign:

Cruz quickly pointed out that the Melania ad wasn't from their campaign and told Trump to stop:

Then he went on TV and quoted The American President at Trump. So if you found yourself vaguely liking Ted Cruz for the first time ever, don't worry, there's nothing wrong with you. It's just he was imitating a much better, more likable politician: Michael Douglas's Andrew Shepherd.